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There is growing evidence for the kinetics of homogeneous nucleation being a multi-step process. Colloid experiments and simulations now suggest that heterogeneous nucleation is no exception.

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Figure 1: Crystal nucleation in the presence of a smooth wall can either be a one-step or a two-step process1.

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  1. Rajesh Ganapathy and Ajay K. Sood are at the International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560064, India,

    Rajesh Ganapathy & Ajay K. Sood

  2. R.G. is also at Sheikh Saqr Laboratory, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560064, India,

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  3. A.K.S. is also in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India,

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Ganapathy, R., Sood, A. Brought to the surface. Nature Phys 13, 421–422 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4057

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